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ProfessorLinda Martín-Alcoff gave the PresidentialAddress at the 2012Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta Georgia, December 29, 2012. The text of her address, which was entitled "Philosophy's Civil Wars," will appear in the November 2013 issue of the APA Proceedings and Addresses (87.2).
The presentation she gave is here in this podcast, along with the introduction by Professor Sally Haslanger.
Alcoff raises the question of the moral and political stakes of philosophy's current internal divisiveness, as well as its relation to the professions' "demographic challenges." She challenges the widely held belief that the professions' dominance by white males has no bearing on its content. Other disciplines, from the natural and social sciences to the humanities, have addressed their demographic shortcomings and made significant headway. The question is: what is holding philosophy back? Alcoff suggests it is the profession's self-understanding as an enterprise that is aimed above all at truth, where the pursuit of truth is understood to be exempt from the quotidian concerns of sociology. She offers two counterexamples from within philosophy itself that provide other ways to think about truth: from contemporary philosophers of science, and from the tradition of Latin American philosophy. These traditions contextualize the processes within which we arrive at truth. Philosophy's civil wars will no doubt continue, but Alcoff hopes the true stakes of these wars will become more apparent.

[NOTE: Due to a technical problem, there is only audio until approximately 13 minutes into the presentation, after which full video begins]
Details on the symposium at which this talk was given may be found at our website:
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Linda Martin

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Linda Martin is an Irish singer and television presenter. She is best known in Europe as the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992 with the song "Why Me?", and in Ireland as a member of the 1970s/1980s band, Chips.

Family

Martin is of Irish, Scottish and Italian ancestry. Her surname was originally Martini. Her paternal great-grandfather Francis Martini was born in Dublin to immigrants from Saronno near Milan, Italy. Martin's maternal great-grandparents, William Green and Elizabeth Nangle had a coal-mining background; they had transferred to Belfast from Larkhall, Scotland.

Career

Chips

Martin started off her musical career when she joined the band Chips in Omagh in 1969. They quickly became one of the top bands in Ireland on the live circuit and released hit singles "Love Matters", "Twice a Week" and "Goodbye Goodbye" during the mid to late 1970s. In 1972, Martin broke away from Chips to be a vocalist with new band Lyttle People, but rejoined Chips the following year. The group appeared on Opportunity Knocks in 1974 and appeared a number of times on British television promoting their singles, but never scored a UK hit. With multiple entries to the Irish National finals of the Eurovision Song Contest, the band carried on into the 1980s. They scored a final Irish hit in 1982 with "David's Song", after which Martin broke away when she won the Castlebar Song Contest with "Edge of the Universe" in 1983. From this point she concentrated on a solo career as well as occasional live appearances with Chips until they recruited a new lead singer (Valerie Roe) in the late 1980s.

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ProfessorLinda Martín-Alcoff gave the PresidentialAddress at the 2012Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta Georgia, December 29, 2012. The text of her address, which was entitled "Philosophy's Civil Wars," will appear in the November 2013 issue of the APA Proceedings and Addresses (87.2).
The presentation she gave is here in this podcast, along with the introduction by Professor Sally Haslanger.
Alcoff raises the question of the moral and political stakes of philosophy's current internal divisiveness, as well as its relation to the professions' "demographic challenges." She challenges the widely held belief that the professions' dominance by white males has no bearing on its content. Other disciplines, from the natural and social sciences to the humanities, have addressed their demographic shortcomings and made significant headway. The question is: what is holding philosophy back? Alcoff suggests it is the profession's self-understanding as an enterprise that is aimed above all at truth, where the pursuit of truth is understood to be exempt from the quotidian concerns of sociology. She offers two counterexamples from within philosophy itself that provide other ways to think about truth: from contemporary philosophers of science, and from the tradition of Latin American philosophy. These traditions contextualize the processes within which we arrive at truth. Philosophy's civil wars will no doubt continue, but Alcoff hopes the true stakes of these wars will become more apparent.

[NOTE: Due to a technical problem, there is only audio until approximately 13 minutes into the presentation, after which full video begins]
Details on the symposium at which this talk was given may be found at our website:
http://blogs.newschool.edu/graduate-faculty-philosophy-journal/2014/12/09/race-and-philosophy-2015-arendt-schurmann-symposium-new-school-for-social-research/

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Modern Segregation: Segregated Pleasures and the Comforts of Homogeneity feat. Linda Alcoff

Modern Segregation: Segregated Pleasures and the Comforts of Homogeneity feat. Linda Alcoff

Modern Segregation: Segregated Pleasures and the Comforts of Homogeneity feat. Linda Alcoff

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published: 11 Mar 2015

Modern Segregation: Segregated Pleasures and the Comforts of Homogeneity feat. Linda Alcoff

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ProfessorLinda Martín-Alcoff gave the PresidentialAddress at the 2012Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta Georgia, December 29, 2012. The text of her address, which was entitled "Philosophy's Civil Wars," will appear in the November 2013 issue of the APA Proceedings and Addresses (87.2).
The presentation she gave is here in this podcast, along with the introduction by Professor Sally Haslanger.
Alcoff raises the question of the moral and political stakes of philosophy's current internal divisiveness, as well as its relation to the professions' "demographic challenges." She challenges the widely held belief that the professions' dominance by white males has no bearing on its content. Other disciplines, from the natural and social sciences to the humanities, have addressed their demographic shortcomings and made significant headway. The question is: what is holding philosophy back? Alcoff suggests it is the profession's self-understanding as an enterprise that is aimed above all at truth, where the pursuit of truth is understood to be exempt from the quotidian concerns of sociology. She offers two counterexamples from within philosophy itself that provide other ways to think about truth: from contemporary philosophers of science, and from the tradition of Latin American philosophy. These traditions contextualize the processes within which we arrive at truth. Philosophy's civil wars will no doubt continue, but Alcoff hopes the true stakes of these wars will become more apparent.

ProfessorLinda Martín-Alcoff gave the PresidentialAddress at the 2012Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta Georgia, December 29, 2012. The text of her address, which was entitled "Philosophy's Civil Wars," will appear in the November 2013 issue of the APA Proceedings and Addresses (87.2).
The presentation she gave is here in this podcast, along with the introduction by Professor Sally Haslanger.
Alcoff raises the question of the moral and political stakes of philosophy's current internal divisiveness, as well as its relation to the professions' "demographic challenges." She challenges the widely held belief that the professions' dominance by white males has no bearing on its content. Other disciplines, from the natural and social sciences to the humanities, have addressed their demographic shortcomings and made significant headway. The question is: what is holding philosophy back? Alcoff suggests it is the profession's self-understanding as an enterprise that is aimed above all at truth, where the pursuit of truth is understood to be exempt from the quotidian concerns of sociology. She offers two counterexamples from within philosophy itself that provide other ways to think about truth: from contemporary philosophers of science, and from the tradition of Latin American philosophy. These traditions contextualize the processes within which we arrive at truth. Philosophy's civil wars will no doubt continue, but Alcoff hopes the true stakes of these wars will become more apparent.

[NOTE: Due to a technical problem, there is only audio until approximately 13 minutes into the presentation, after which full video begins]
Details on the symp...

[NOTE: Due to a technical problem, there is only audio until approximately 13 minutes into the presentation, after which full video begins]
Details on the symposium at which this talk was given may be found at our website:
http://blogs.newschool.edu/graduate-faculty-philosophy-journal/2014/12/09/race-and-philosophy-2015-arendt-schurmann-symposium-new-school-for-social-research/

[NOTE: Due to a technical problem, there is only audio until approximately 13 minutes into the presentation, after which full video begins]
Details on the symposium at which this talk was given may be found at our website:
http://blogs.newschool.edu/graduate-faculty-philosophy-journal/2014/12/09/race-and-philosophy-2015-arendt-schurmann-symposium-new-school-for-social-research/

published:11 Mar 2015

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Modern Segregation: Segregated Pleasures and the Comforts of Homogeneity feat. Linda Alcoff

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Finding Me S03 EP29 Professor Linda Alcoff

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Alcoff: What comes after capitalism?

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published: 17 Jun 2015

Alcoff: How will awareness of climate change affect the way

Linda Martin-Alcoff answers the big question: How will awareness of climate change affect the way we pursue economic growth?

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ProfessorLinda Martín-Alcoff gave the PresidentialAddress at the 2012Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta Georgia, December 29, 2012. The text of her address, which was entitled "Philosophy's Civil Wars," will appear in the November 2013 issue of the APA Proceedings and Addresses (87.2).
The presentation she gave is here in this podcast, along with the introduction by Professor Sally Haslanger.
Alcoff raises the question of the moral and political stakes of philosophy's current internal divisiveness, as well as its relation to the professions' "demographic challenges." She challenges the widely held belief that the professions' dominance by white males has no bearing on its content. Other disciplines, from the natural and social sciences to the humanities, have addressed their demographic shortcomings and made significant headway. The question is: what is holding philosophy back? Alcoff suggests it is the profession's self-understanding as an enterprise that is aimed above all at truth, where the pursuit of truth is understood to be exempt from the quotidian concerns of sociology. She offers two counterexamples from within philosophy itself that provide other ways to think about truth: from contemporary philosophers of science, and from the tradition of Latin American philosophy. These traditions contextualize the processes within which we arrive at truth. Philosophy's civil wars will no doubt continue, but Alcoff hopes the true stakes of these wars will become more apparent.

ProfessorLinda Martín-Alcoff gave the PresidentialAddress at the 2012Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta Georgia, December 29, 2012. The text of her address, which was entitled "Philosophy's Civil Wars," will appear in the November 2013 issue of the APA Proceedings and Addresses (87.2).
The presentation she gave is here in this podcast, along with the introduction by Professor Sally Haslanger.
Alcoff raises the question of the moral and political stakes of philosophy's current internal divisiveness, as well as its relation to the professions' "demographic challenges." She challenges the widely held belief that the professions' dominance by white males has no bearing on its content. Other disciplines, from the natural and social sciences to the humanities, have addressed their demographic shortcomings and made significant headway. The question is: what is holding philosophy back? Alcoff suggests it is the profession's self-understanding as an enterprise that is aimed above all at truth, where the pursuit of truth is understood to be exempt from the quotidian concerns of sociology. She offers two counterexamples from within philosophy itself that provide other ways to think about truth: from contemporary philosophers of science, and from the tradition of Latin American philosophy. These traditions contextualize the processes within which we arrive at truth. Philosophy's civil wars will no doubt continue, but Alcoff hopes the true stakes of these wars will become more apparent.

published:02 Mar 2013

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Linda Alcoff on what philosophy can contribute to the global resistance against rape

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Linda Martín Alcoff – Institute for Social Justice (ACU)

Professor Linda Martín Alcoff joined the Institute for Social Justice (ACU) as a Professor...

ProfessorLinda Martín-Alcoff gave the PresidentialAddress at the 2012Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta Georgia, December 29, 2012. The text of her address, which was entitled "Philosophy's Civil Wars," will appear in the November 2013 issue of the APA Proceedings and Addresses (87.2).
The presentation she gave is here in this podcast, along with the introduction by Professor Sally Haslanger.
Alcoff raises the question of the moral and political stakes of philosophy's current internal divisiveness, as well as its relation to the professions' "demographic challenges." She challenges the widely held belief that the professions' dominance by white males has no bearing on its content. Other disciplines, from the natural and social sciences to the humanities, have addressed their demographic shortcomings and made significant headway. The question is: what is holding philosophy back? Alcoff suggests it is the profession's self-understanding as an enterprise that is aimed above all at truth, where the pursuit of truth is understood to be exempt from the quotidian concerns of sociology. She offers two counterexamples from within philosophy itself that provide other ways to think about truth: from contemporary philosophers of science, and from the tradition of Latin American philosophy. These traditions contextualize the processes within which we arrive at truth. Philosophy's civil wars will no doubt continue, but Alcoff hopes the true stakes of these wars will become more apparent.

[NOTE: Due to a technical problem, there is only audio until approximately 13 minutes into the presentation, after which full video begins]
Details on the symposium at which this talk was given may be found at our website:
http://blogs.newschool.edu/graduate-faculty-philosophy-journal/2014/12/09/race-and-philosophy-2015-arendt-schurmann-symposium-new-school-for-social-research/

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Modern Segregation: Segregated Pleasures and the Comforts of Homogeneity feat. Linda Alcoff

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Linda Martín Alcoff – Institute for Social Justice (ACU)

Professor Linda Martín Alcoff joined the Institute for Social Justice (ACU) as a Professor...

[NOTE: Due to a technical problem, there is only audio until approximately 13 minutes into the presentation, after which full video begins]
Details on the symposium at which this talk was given may be found at our website:
http://blogs.newschool.edu/graduate-faculty-philosophy-journal/2014/12/09/race-and-philosophy-2015-arendt-schurmann-symposium-new-school-for-social-research/

ProfessorLinda Martín-Alcoff gave the PresidentialAddress at the 2012Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta Georgia, December 29, 2012. The text of her address, which was entitled "Philosophy's Civil Wars," will appear in the November 2013 issue of the APA Proceedings and Addresses (87.2).
The presentation she gave is here in this podcast, along with the introduction by Professor Sally Haslanger.
Alcoff raises the question of the moral and political stakes of philosophy's current internal divisiveness, as well as its relation to the professions' "demographic challenges." She challenges the widely held belief that the professions' dominance by white males has no bearing on its content. Other disciplines, from the natural and social sciences to the humanities, have addressed their demographic shortcomings and made significant headway. The question is: what is holding philosophy back? Alcoff suggests it is the profession's self-understanding as an enterprise that is aimed above all at truth, where the pursuit of truth is understood to be exempt from the quotidian concerns of sociology. She offers two counterexamples from within philosophy itself that provide other ways to think about truth: from contemporary philosophers of science, and from the tradition of Latin American philosophy. These traditions contextualize the processes within which we arrive at truth. Philosophy's civil wars will no doubt continue, but Alcoff hopes the true stakes of these wars will become more apparent.

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Linda Alcoff on what philosophy can contribute to the global resistance against rape

The 2014 World Philosophy Day at the City College of New York keynote speech by Linda Alco...

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